Avoid all equivocal expressions, usually denominated double entendre; they are certain proofs of a mean and indelicate mind.
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Double entendre
/dubl ɑ̃tɑ̃ːdɹ/
Synonyms for "double entendre" (61 found)
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ambiguityambiguousnessamphibologybelly laughblue storycomplexity of meaningcounterworddirty jokedirty storydouble meaningdouble referenceepigramequivocacy
Strong matches (18)
equivocalequivocalityequivocalnessequivocationequivoqueethnic jokefunfunny storygaggood onegood storyhowlerironyjapejestjestbookjokelaugh
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levels of meaningmultivocalitypanicparonomasiaplaypointpolysemantpolysemousnesspolysemyportmanteau wordpunpunningquiprib ticklerrichness of meaningriotscreamsick jokesidesplittersight gag
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It is a momentous crusade without the cross; and an insidious one, for the calumnies and double entendre against the church are well wrapped up and keenly distributed.
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Churn and stick, and the agitation needed to make the butter, would obviously suggest sexual intercourse, and so the work song becomes an occasion for a series of double entendres in which the dairy maids could tease the men working in the vicinity and thus enact the courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi to make their work sacred.
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It is not only the teacher's play with single words, phrases, and double entendre that are common in my classroom data.
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